Story+2008-05-23+Dublin,+Ireland

“Good evening, fine citizens of Dublin (crowd cheers) we´re so glad to be in your beautiful city tonight, are you ready to be transformed? (crowd cheers) are you ready to be re-born? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Night”**

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“Good evening Dublin! (crowd cheers)…thank you so much…oh, we got, uh, the weather, it´s (?) on us a little bit tonight…oh, it´s good to be back in Dublin, we had a great night the other night (crowd cheers) alright, who was here last night? (crowd cheers) get outta here, come on! (chuckles)…alright, we´ll switch it all up for you tonight…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Magic”**

“Alright now…how we doing over there? (crowd cheers) that´s right, let´s see what we got…”Exit 109”…from New Jersey? (chuckles)…alright (?)…come on…this is called “Livin´ in the Future” …but it´s about what´s happening now…now, back, back home, along with all the things that we´re proud of, we´ve had to add to the American picture things like, over the past eight years, things like rendition and illegal wiretapping and rolling-back of civil liberties, no Habeas Corpus, which is the right to defend yourself against the charges brought against you, these are all things that when I was…when I was a little kid, people always told me that happens someplace else, it didn´t happen in the U.S.A…well, this is a song about sleeping through changes that you never thought you´d see…help me tell the story, Max…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Livin´ in the Future”**

“Oh, that´s right, are you ready for the house party? (crowd cheers) come on!...that´s all I wanna know…hello, Dublin! (crowd cheers) how we doing back there? (crowd cheers) oh, let´s bring it down now…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Mary´s Place”**

“Oh yeah, ooh!...good to be in Ireland (chuckles) alright…I guess it´s a little cool for this one here but gonna send this one out to all the lovely Irish girls (crowd cheers) all the Dublin girls…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“[accepts a beer from the crowd and drinks it] To the Irish girls…Oh yeah…well done…I owe somebody a beer now (chuckles)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, after “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“Thank you! (crowd cheers) I wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show this evening, thank you very much, Dublin, thank you, Ireland (crowd cheers) and thanks for all the support for all the, uh, all the music we´ve made and come over with, we´ve had such a great time, uh, over the past ten years, particularly, you guys have just really, uh, supported us so great, we appreciate that very much (crowd cheers)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “Jungleland”**

“Hey, Steve! (Steve: “Yeah?”) is it quitting time?...is it going home time? (crowd: “No”) is it sleepy-time? (crowd: “No”) is it sexy-time? (crowd cheers) maybe it´s Guinness-time (crowd cheers) no, then, Steve, what I wanna know is…what time is it, Steve?... (Steve: “Oh, it´s Boss-time!”)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, middle of “Glory Days”**

“Thank you, my friend…I will now scare small children…” (* according to Backstreets.Com, during “Dancing in the Dark” “Bruce came down to pull a young girl up for a dance, but seemingly overwhelmed, she had to go right back to her folks. So instead, he went the other direction and grabbed a grown-up guy from Brescia, Italy for the honor.”)
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, at the end of “Dancing in the Dark”**

“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight! (crowd cheers) (…) Garry W.Tallent (crowd cheers) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you´ve ever seen, Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Dublin! (crowd cheers) Dublin! (crowd cheers) Dublin! (crowd cheers) Dublin! (crowd cheers) you´ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”
 * 23.05.08 Dublin, Ireland, intro to “American Land”**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//